We describe a new network service, the “ticket server”. This service provides “tickets” that a client can attach to a request for a network service (such as sending email o...
The broad spread of packet data networks and the emergence of applications in multimedia communications, created a driving force towards an improved Quality of Service (QoS) model...
T. Al-Khasib, Hussein M. Alnuweiri, Hossam Fattah,...
Abstract—We provide a formal model for the Change Management process for Enterprise IT systems, and develop change scheduling algorithms that seek to attain the “change capacit...
Resource leveling is a variant of resource-constrained project scheduling in which a non-regular objective function, the resource availability cost, is to be minimized. We present ...
We present Group Round-Robin (GRR) scheduling, a hybrid fair packet scheduling framework based on a grouping strategy that narrows down the traditional trade-off between fairness ...